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-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Fisher <lithium@cia-g.com>
To: portmaster-users@livingston.com <portmaster-users@livingston.com>
Date: Wednesday, May 27, 1998 2:14 PM
Subject: Re: (PM) configuring a new pm2e
>
>Flip dipswitch #2 up, for more details check out the search function
(search
>for netboot) on www.livingston.com
>
>On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 11:33:29PM -0500, Samudra E. Haque wrote:
>> hello, this is only my second pm2e, so be gentle w/me :-!
>>
>> okay, the pm2e was in the storage for a while, and it has (at
>> best, com os 3.5). I would like it to match the already operational
>> pm no. 1., which is at com os 3.7.2 happily running its 386
>> processor.
>>
>> I'd like to have the box startup in netboot mode, and without
>> the need for a serial connection to its S0 port, simply bleep
>> on the network until it gets its own IP address -- and then
>> proceed to load the GENERIC.PM2 (a.k.a. 3.7.2) image which
>> I have placed in the /tftpboot of a server.
>>
>> Can a new PM2E get its own IP address using bootp?
>>
>> Somewhere in the past (maybe some leftover documents when
>> I was searching for portmaster info a year ago) I remember reading
>> that the PM2E seeks to get its own binary image by using its
>> own Ethernet addresses to form a file name?
>>
>> Is there any way to avoid having to drag a laptop computer
>> to plug into the S0 and then say "tftpboot 1.2.3.4" or set
>> its own ethernet address for a new PM2E.
>>
>> searches of the archives seem to only cover the recent months,
>> and not the past issues!!!!!
>>
>>
>> -samudra-
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